NAM.2005-04-10-212

Photograph of a Gurkha funeral pyre, 1938 (c). From a photograph album of 270 photographs compiled by Sgt George Edward Davies, 2nd Bn South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) depicting British Army life in India, 1935-1941. Sgt Davies was later killed on 1 Apr 1945 whilst serving in Burma, and is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery.